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You’ll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
Love is only found in books.
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there’s no happily ever after. You’ll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon – because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.
I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
E-books are great for instant gratification – you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.
Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness – and that can make me laugh.
We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.
I’m very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don’t want to read mine, there are others.
Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It’s a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don’t read. In truth, I wish you’d read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.
One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.
The Navy is very old and very wise.